[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  We thank You that You have been our help in decades past and will be 
our hope for years to come. We pause in Your presence and ask guidance 
for the men and women of the people's House.
  Send Your Spirit of Wisdom as they face this day with difficult 
decisions to be made, work to be done, burdens to be carried, and life 
to be lived as best they can.
  Keep love's banner floating over all of us as we walk in the way of 
those who act with justice, love with mercy, and walk with humility 
before You. Help us to fashion our desires, our duties, and our deeds 
in accordance with Your will, that we may labor for a better world 
filled with good people who labor for the well-being of all.
  Bless us this day and every day. And may all that is done within the 
people's House this day be done for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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